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AuthSmith: A Customizable Password Generator – Feedback Welcome
Hi Hacker News Community,

I’m thrilled to present AuthSmith, a hobby project of mine designed for generating strong, secure passwords and passphrases. AuthSmith offers instant results, customizable settings to match various security needs, and integrates security checks through the Have I Been Pwned? API to ensure the generated passwords haven’t been compromised.

This project is my exploration into web security tools and UI/UX design, striving for simplicity and effectiveness. Whether you're securing personal accounts or looking for enterprise-level solutions, I hope AuthSmith can be of service.

I’m eager to hear your thoughts on how it works, looks, and feels. Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated to help improve AuthSmith.

Try it out here: https://www.authsmith.pro/ and let me know your impressions!

Thanks for checking it out!

Max

edit: The domain is new, if you have a dns filter on new domains you can try this url: https://authsmith.vercel.app/
Who is the 'somebody'? Genuinely, I don't understand what segment of consumers will actually be leveraging the compute in this device.
My understanding is that carbon output per capita is far lower in nyc than in american suburbia. American suburbia is a pretty unique place, hard to say how it compares to europe, but at least in the US city livers generally are more ecological at least by some definitions.

I dont think many people value efficiency as highly as you do. Tons of people are fine with being inefficient, they certainly wouldnt call their actions absurd. To me there's nothing wrong with transporting salmon, and Im honestly not really sure why you think there is. Most lox is factory farmed so not like its threatening the species.
iPhones with A17 already have hardware ray tracing. Few applications/games support it at present.
Indeed. Have we already forgotten about the RDF?
New startup idea: manufacture a hard-plastic spiky attachment, shaped like a tubular hair-brush that I can simply screw onto the base of my Sonicare toothbrush, then stand upside down into the brewing carafe of my Oxo cold-brew setup. The Sonicare's built-in 2 minute timer may have to be activated twice, for a full brew.
Not sure what you mean by in-browser, but Tailscale meets the first two requirements: https://tailscale.com/download/linux/rpi
Wow, I didn't realize Final Cut Pro had all these features! The background clipping is sick. The document scanning is something I use my iphone for a lot and this new business with the flash to stitch sounds great.
The fact that TSMC publishes their own metrics and target goals for each node makes it straightforward to compare the transistor density, power efficiency, etc.

The most interesting aspect of the M4 is simply it's debuting on the iPad lineup, whereas historically it's always been on the iPhone (for A-series) and Macbook (for M-series). Makes sense given low expected yielded for the newest node for one of Apple's lower volume products.

For the curious, the original TSMC N3 node had a lot of issues plus was very costly so makes sense to move away from it: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tsmcs-3nm-conundrum-does-it-e...
Apple was still selling new 9th-gen iPads yesterday. As of today, it is no longer in their store.

The 10th-generation iPad (first released in 2022) is now the cheapest model you can buy new from Apple.
TOPS != TFLOPS

RTX 4090 Tensor 1,321 TOPS according to spec sheet so roughly 35x.

RTX 4090 is 191 Tensor TFLOPS vs M2 5.6 TFLOPS (M3 is tough to find spec).

RTX 4090 is also 1.5 years old.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240507134855/https://www.theat...
Browse some government auctions near a university and you'll buy dozens of older Dell Optiplexes for $200.
> And if the free market solves this, why are we in this situation in the first place? Shouldn't the free market have solved this already? Instead we have piles of empty houses/buildings and more homeless than ever before.

There is no 'situation'. Rational participants in the free market mostly have housing. The issue is that there is a widely available drug (fentanyl and meth too) that makes people behave irrationally, and thus the free market principles stop applying, since they presume a basic level of participant rationality. The fix from a government perspective is to remove the agency of those who are so drug addled that they cannot make good decisions.
As he said, you buy excess storage so that you don't have to think about how much storage you are using. Meanwhile if you barely have enough, you're going to have to play data tetris. You can find 256GB SSDs that sell for as low as 20€. How much money is it worth to not worry about running out of data? Probably more than the cost of the SSD at these prices.
> For such small string, any statistical compression won't have a smaller size

That is a statement you can make, but you have to actually demonstrate this is true against zstd's --train mechanism [1] which generates a more optimized "small string" dictionary based on representative training data precisely for this use-case.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md

> those are used for different scenarios. zstd is used for data compression, the meta string encoding here is used for meta meta encoding

Not sure what this means. The motivating use-case described for the alternate string encoding is precisely compression.
The only way around this is to sit with the candidate and carefully review the code they submit. Ask about design decisions and navigate the design space together (How would things change if memory were most important? What if input were 1e6 times bigger?)

You could also show them another solution (maybe one with a bug?) and ask them to explain it and compare with their solution.

If they are leaning heavily on an LLM it should show up during the follow-on discussion.
Show HN: Fire-ninja-bot a telegram bot fight censorship
Qualcomm is also with TSMC and their newer 4nm processor is expected to stay competitive with the M series.

If the magic comes mostly from TSMC, there's a good chance for these claims to be true and to have a series of better chips coming on the other platforms as well.
I'm convinced those who think LLMs are just hype haven't used them, or don't know how outdated most back office processes are, and don't realize how limited we are in terms of content. I would say the bubble is just barely forming, not about to burst for several more years.

Reasons:

- OpenAI lobbying trying to get open source competition banned

- Apple releasing the M4 with those hardware specs

- Big brands like Adobe finding early success

- Industries are ripe for disruption: Medical, legal, procurement, communications of various kinds especially around documentation, support, summarizing, education, media, art, music, film and other entertainment, I can imagine a lot of disruption.

What would this do to Netflix:

render a 100-hour Harry Potter film that follows every detail of the books exactly

Or:

render a Tom Cruise sci-fi movie starring Sigourney Weaver in her prime and Bruce Willis as the villain

How could Netflix or even YouTube keep up with scripts that render any video you can imagine? They'll have to offer it too, or go the way of Blockbuster. I imagine record labels and film studios will sue and try to get certain models banned that imitate celebrities or film styles, but people will just illicitly share models with torrents. There's going to be a whole era, I think, because the tech will need to be captured by the big boys but it's not there yet - so part of that is letting the market come up with ideas before they absorb it all then burst the economy.

Our search engines and websites will have LLMs imbued into their functionality, smartphones will have them, kiosks IRL will have them, SaaS will use them to replace representatives and online order forms.

IMO AI models are potentially more disruptive than social media and crypto because it's not just the sharing of content unrestricted, it's the unrestricted creation of content and information itself - giving basically anyone the ability to do it.
Launching on product hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/code-screenshot
> The social housing system is broken, but thats mostly because they havent built enough housing in the last 50 years.

So it's not working well.
I think it conveys its concept well: a lesser equivalent at high cost, aimed to destroy things of value, embracing AI cultural revolution.
Agree. The stated attack is not against an end to end solution.
I need to be able to debug apps on physical devices from the iPad. And it needs to be wired connection because debugging over wifi even on my Mac is very bad (lots of complaints online about it too).
The 4090 costs ~$1800 and doesn't have dual OLED screens, doesn't have a battery, doesn't weigh less than a pound, and doesn't actually do anything unless it is plugged into a larger motherboard, either.
I find it interesting that 100W for ~120 seconds is ~0.3kcal which for a 100ml cup is ~3C. They are right at the limit of power to flow rate. Much faster flow and presumably the cavitation wouldn't "brew" enough, while much slower and it would warm up the coffee noticeably. I'm doubtful the frequency matters much if the cavitation is what is causing the mixing since those are just bubbles emerging and popping, but the efficiency of coupling from ultrasonic wand to liquid could change a lot.

Since you could presumably put 2 of these in parallel and have 2x100ml cups in 2min with 200W without changing the recipe (or 1 cup in half the time), this seems pretty scalable with increased cost and area.

Unagitated cold brew is in the 10hour region, but with agitation/pump through it seems like you can do 8 cups in 20min which is almost as fast as the cavitation method. I suspect the grind size starts having really big effects here.

https://instantpot.com/products/instant-cold-brewer
There's the Makita BBY 18V foldable bike.
> Unfortunately that board, like pretty much all consumer-like boards, suffers from a lack of PCI-Express lanes.

Depending on the use case, this is true.

> That M.2 slot can do only 0.985 GB/s, so literally all NVMe SSDs on the market will be limited by that. Maybe useful for a boot drive, but that's about it.

Yeah I stated speed limited, but you are correct.

> The board has pretty lackluster network interfaces, so you want to get an external NIC

This is also true (in my post I wrote 2.5G interface, actually this was a typo, I meant 2x1G interface).

> That probably means grabbing a cheap second-hand 40G NIC from Ebay. But those are designed for PCI-E Gen3, so sticking it in your only remaining (x4) slot means it is limited to 31.5Gbps - in a best-case scenario...

Ok, this might be not the normal persons use case... I think 10G is already pretty unusual in the homelab of most people, whereas I would say that 2.5G should be standard.

> it's all about compromises

That's the point. You can't get "fast, cheap and good" - I think the MC12 is a pretty good compromise. Sure, you can get a Supermicro X13SAE or ASRock IMB-X1314 (Intel, W680) - probably higher quality and far more reliable, but limited bifurcation and only the board would cost ~450 bucks. Another problem with the Supermicro may be that DDR5 ECC RAM is hardly available and expensive.
Really interesting tool ! I have to test it ;)
I have worked on a decent number of dynamically-typed Ruby and Python systems in the 50,000 to 250,000 line range, written and maintained by teams. This has never felt like a strong use case for dynamic typing. You end up losing:

- A lot of IDE support. The loss of documentation tooltips, in particular, can be painful in a team environment.

- The ability to change an API and immediately see all the affected code. This affects refactoring speed when making big cleanups. Massive updates I could do in a few hours in Rust might take 2 weeks on a big Rails project.

- Team-wide clarity on exactly what goes into key data structures. Can something be null? Does it allow numbers, or only strings? Etc.

With two developers and a small code base, you can keep most of this information in your head. And Rails is still unmatched for terse, clear code, plus off-the-shelf modules for many common tasks.

I'm not even sure that Ruby could be retrofitted with a really worthwhile type system, to be honest. JavaScript already required a lot of black magic, and in some ways, Ruby is even more dynamic. So perhaps Ruby is better left as-is, even if that makes it a poorer choice for projects that would benefit from static typing.
Every company that has some form of manufacturing is doing similar cost reductions.

Supply Chain is hard enough in a globalized world, and it's only gotten even harder now that a multi-year pandemic shutdown, trade wars, and tariffs are coming to play.
What difference does a "working financial market" make?

What would be different if the company was based in mainland Europe? Wouldn't Microsoft and Nvidia still be able to invest?
Which specific text contains "equally bad" objectively/deterministically?
I almost wonder if one could make immersive sims for VR, though such an experiment would probably be incredibly intensive for a relatively minuscule playerbase.
> we started searching for a tool specifically built for complex discussions. We found none

What about:

https://www.kialo.com/
The more complex, expensive and counter intuitive your morning coffee, the better!

90% of the experience is looking cool!
Onyx makes a HDMI "25 eInk display [0]. It's pricey.

[0] https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

edit: "25, not "27
I’m pretty sure Clarke’s 2001 book was post-screenplay and possibly post-movie.
And here I am with my MB Air M1 with no plan to upgrade whatsoever because I don't need to...

(yes, I understand this is about iPad, but I guess we'll see these M4 on the MB Air as well ?)
I'm holding on to my iPhone 12 mini and BOSE QC 35 II for dear life. It is rare these days to find a product that just works for you, and you always know that it's gonna be replaced by a crappier, more expensive model as soon as it breaks.
I know plenty of millennial homeowners that would not be able to afford todays prices at current interest rates. They bought before the covid bump (or earlier) and could barely afford it then. Had they rented instead they would probably be locked out of the housing market, at least until they got a significant pay increase or some sort of windfall.
I've seen a really interesting pattern play out a few times now.

A startup needs to raise money and hitches onto the latest tech stack that grabs investors' attention. The startup raises on a valuation inflated based partly on the tech stack itself, meaning enough attention isn't given to the actual product or business model. Ultimately the startup runs into money problems when they can't live up to the tech stack hype and the valuation that went with it.

I saw this first hand with a startup picking Plaentscale early on. There's nothing wrong with the product and it solves certain problems really well, but I saw one particular startup grab it early because it was getting a lot of attention and completely missed that the limitations of Planet scale ran smack in the face of what the startup wanted to build.
Because the reason is totally made up by german bureaucrats to steal more from the people
Wasn't it relatively well known that the M3 is on an expensive process and quickly getting to an M4 on a cheaper/higher yield process would be worth it?
They compared against really old intel CPUs because those were the last ones they used in their own computers! Apple likes to compare device to device, not component to component.
I have a 2017 Bolt EV, and I feel similarly. GM accidentally made an ideal EV for a reasonable price, and now they are correcting course by ruining future models.
You can claim Apple is dishonest for a few reasons.

1) Graphs often are unannotatted.

2) Comparisons are rarely against latest generation products. (their argument for that has been that they do not expect people to upgrade yearly, so its showing the difference of their intended upgrade path).

3) They have conflated performance, for performance per watt.

However, when it comes to battery life, performance (for a task) or specification of their components (screens, ability to use external displays up to 6k, port speed etc) there are almost no hidden gotchas and they have tended to be trustworthy.

The first wave of M1 announcements were met with similar suspicion as you have shown here; but it was swiftly dispelled once people actually got their hands on them.

*EDIT:* Blaming a guy who's been dead for 13 years for something they said 50 years ago, and primarily it seems for internal use is weird. I had to look up the context but it seems it was more about internal motivation in the 70’s than relating to anything today, especially when referring to concrete claims.
I'd really love cables from my office to my livingroom.
Yeah, along with the API entitlements. That’s how sandbox security works.
I have to disagree with you about 2001. Both endings were epic, but Clarke's vision in the book was more rational and scientific, while Kubrick's is more impressionistic and mystical. As a result, the two effectively diverge at the end and the book doesn't really "explain" the movie. (Although I certainly do encourage everyone to read the book as well.)
A few years ago there was a crowdfunded instant cold brew machine based on acoustic cavitation called Osma.[1] I don't think it's still in production. I met the founder during testing at Chromatic Coffee in San Jose, and took delivery of one of the first units. Cool concept, but it didn't work very well

[1] https://www.engadget.com/osma-pro-cold-brew-coffee-machine-r...
> This was not my point and you know it.

No, but that was mine in the message you answered to.

> The average person consumes HTML email.

And I'm not sure the average person cares about receiving elaborate emails with spy pixels and advanced use of CSS either.
Never understood the animosity, especially because it seems to only go one direction.
It’s no different than drinking an iced coffee drink that was made from coffee brewed traditionally.
Don't get me started on the home button. I miss it dearly. The UI/UX of a home button is unmatched by any of the replacement gestures. Some of them are just plain bizaree too eg swipe up, right, up to get your apps.

The biggest problem is that swipe up depends on orientation of the app and that's not always clear, particularly if playing video. The app might be orientation locked in landscape even though you're viewing it in landscape.

And of course there's Face ID, which I personally hate. I know others like it but the false negative rate is horrendous. Plus they increase "security" by having a really lot limit on failed attempts before you have to enter your passcode anyway. And since attempts can be passive, you can hit the limit pretty often. Touch ID is just better in almost every way.

Plus Face ID is an accessibility nightmare as anyone who is vision impaired can tell you. The distance the device needs to be for Face ID to work is not the distance yo use the device at.

Every Apple device should have the option of Touch ID on the power button just like the iPad Air does. It's also why I own the iPad Air specifically.
Email, password manager, iOS keychain, photos, videos, etc should all be there if synced to iCloud.
And why other PC vendors not latching on to the hero?
But the coffee shop is not offering VPN services, at least none that I would accept.
Typical Masayoshi Son investment.
Your writeup is IMO much better than the way this is being reported.

FWIW, I remember reading something similar years ago (I'm not certain it was your specific post, but it might have been). It's strange to see this being described as "novel" now, unless there's something new to it that I am missing.
One more thing, even though this is going to be a controversial point:

Some might say, "But Wayland breaks XYZ, or can't do XYZ!"

I'm just going to quote Adam Jackson, who was the project owner for X.org at Red Hat:

"I'm of the opinion that keeping xfree86 alive as a viable alternative since Wayland started getting real traction in 2010ish is part of the reason those are still issues; time and effort that could have gone into Wayland has been diverted into xfree86."
When you speak about code from the 1970s in particular, you need to appreciate the extremely limited language features that were available.

They did not even have while-loops in the language until Fortran 77. While-loop functionality used to be implemented using DO-loops mixed with GOTOs. You can't fault the people of that era for using the only tools that were available to them.
Lots of board places for her, as she seems to have the right skillset for Wall Street. Also, it's at least interesting to see live how money can actually buy freedom.
>The goal is not to be right. It's to find what's right.

This is why I think design docs need to be lightweight and reviewed early. Design docs shouldn't be a masterpiece perfected in isolation over the course of days or weeks. That guarantees the author has calcified their opinions. When I was on review panels at Amazon, 99% of them were an exercise in futility -- the author had already poured concrete. It is very, very, very hard to avoid the mental trap of "Hrmph! I've thought about this more deeply than anyone else" that comes from living down in the isolated world of "doing design."

The earlier you get other eyes involved, the more likely people will actually listen to feedback and consider alternatives. You still, of course, need that heads down time to put in all the details, but the overall shape of the design shouldn't be a big reveal when you hit the design review.
Ask HN: What do you use local LLMs for?
Me: finetuning Llama3 for SAT test questions
I’m not talking about chilling warm brewed coffee. All you need to make cold brew coffee is soak coffee grounds in cold water. Whether that is in a mason jar or through a thousand dollar complex laboratory setup is entirely an aesthetic choice.

https://www.loveandlemons.com/cold-brew-coffee/
The fact that they specifically shouted out a portion of the M4 as being dedicated to driving the stacked OLED displays makes me think they'll be moving some of their laptops to OLED imminently as well.
Yeah, I've even seen people in top ML jobs glowingly describe the main value of CoPilot as (just) smart autocomplete, but copying/regurgitation of algorithms ought to be something that even today's LLMs should be capable of.

Of course there's always Google search too if you are just looking for an algorithm, but LLMs help in the discovery process since you can describe what you need without knowing the name of it.
Your analogy is nonsense. Water in a hydropower system falls from a higher gravitational potential to a lower. When a pumped hydro system is charged, the water is moved up and energy is stored in its potential.

This is not the case in a CAES system. The internal energy of air, which is the kinetic energy of its molecules, is independent of pressure. It's only a function of temperature. The internal energy of the air is unchanged by a process that increases its pressure without increasing temperature. So, no energy has been stored in the air.

What has been done is reduction of the entropy of the air. So, it is now possible to convert some of that internal energy (which was always there) to work by expanding the air. The air would end up even colder than the initial air.
Harvey Smith making a Fallout would be a sight to behold, shame Todd won't let him